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Sauer was dealt a losing hand but I think the best strategy would have been to attack the MQD directly. It puts the libs in the uncomfortable position of defending it and Alito/Thomas don’t care because they have Loper Bright now.
Here is Chief Justice Roberts saying: hey, so why isn't the major questions doctrine, a doctrine that has been used to strike down other Presidential actions, applicable here? /7
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Sauer was dealt a losing hand but I think the best strategy would have been to attack the MQD directly. It puts the libs in the uncomfortable position of defending it and Alito/Thomas don’t care because they have Loper Bright now.
Going to need a @fivefourpod.bsky.social on In re Neagle because the facts are wild.
Deputy AG Todd Blanche is threatening to arrest top California officials.
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Going to need a @fivefourpod.bsky.social on In re Neagle because the facts are wild.
Fascinating. When McConnell refused to give Garland a vote, I was told there was nothing Obama could do. Turns out that wasn’t true!
This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Fascinating. When McConnell refused to give Garland a vote, I was told there was nothing Obama could do. Turns out that wasn’t true!
[Donald Trump digs up Millard Filmore’s corpse and displays it on the White House lawn as Halloween decorations]
Jonathan Adler: “I get why people are shocked, but let’s not forget that Fillmore was a historically bad president…”
Jonathan Adler: “I get why people are shocked, but let’s not forget that Fillmore was a historically bad president…”
I get the point, but the East Wing is hardly "iconic." It was built in the 1940s to cover fhe emergency operations center.
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
[Donald Trump digs up Millard Filmore’s corpse and displays it on the White House lawn as Halloween decorations]
Jonathan Adler: “I get why people are shocked, but let’s not forget that Fillmore was a historically bad president…”
Jonathan Adler: “I get why people are shocked, but let’s not forget that Fillmore was a historically bad president…”
Remind me what Stephen Miller was doing from 2007 to 2016?
"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Remind me what Stephen Miller was doing from 2007 to 2016?
Did any other politicians, other than the Democratic governor of New York, get asked about this on camera?
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?
HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
October 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Did any other politicians, other than the Democratic governor of New York, get asked about this on camera?
If SCOTUS reform is the #1 priority for Dems in Federal office, police reform should be the #1 priority for Dems in state office. In both instances, Dems need to be absolutely ruthless and use every available tool at their disposal.
Yes ultimately many Dem electeds are afraid to give police under their command lawful orders because they think they will not be obeyed and the consequences that fact would have for them and for their state.
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If SCOTUS reform is the #1 priority for Dems in Federal office, police reform should be the #1 priority for Dems in state office. In both instances, Dems need to be absolutely ruthless and use every available tool at their disposal.
Would like Dems to ask her the basis for her refusal to answer. And when she doesn't give one, raise a point of order with the chair, asking if it's acceptable for witnesses to refuse to answer questions without a legal basis or if that's grounds for contempt.
Also, who helped prepare this dossier?
Also, who helped prepare this dossier?
Bondi refuses to answer questions about the Homan bribery scandal but deflects with personal attacks on Padilla
October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Would like Dems to ask her the basis for her refusal to answer. And when she doesn't give one, raise a point of order with the chair, asking if it's acceptable for witnesses to refuse to answer questions without a legal basis or if that's grounds for contempt.
Also, who helped prepare this dossier?
Also, who helped prepare this dossier?
If we’re going to ever get back to some sort of normalcy, there needs to be accountability for everyone responsible for our current nightmare ESPECIALLY anyone involved in the “Come on ride the Float” NFL ad.
September 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If we’re going to ever get back to some sort of normalcy, there needs to be accountability for everyone responsible for our current nightmare ESPECIALLY anyone involved in the “Come on ride the Float” NFL ad.
It’s all palingenetic ultranationalism, with different flavors based on different national histories. GWOT was a big part of ours. The internet obviously helped spread the propaganda (like the radio in the 30s) but saying “this was due to the internet” lets a ton of propagandists off the hook.
Why is reactionary politics equally or more prominent in the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, etc, though
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
September 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It’s all palingenetic ultranationalism, with different flavors based on different national histories. GWOT was a big part of ours. The internet obviously helped spread the propaganda (like the radio in the 30s) but saying “this was due to the internet” lets a ton of propagandists off the hook.
Wasn’t the whole lesson of 2012 that Obama defined Mitt super early - before the GOP could build a myth of moderation and it helped him win in a super unfavorable landscape?
Because the quantbrain status quo types, who can’t see the big picture past their limited proprietary data models, claim to have found the only ads that work to change electoral outcomes are those run the last two months of the cycle. That is, Sept-Oct 2026.
And the donors believe the bad data.
And the donors believe the bad data.
August 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Wasn’t the whole lesson of 2012 that Obama defined Mitt super early - before the GOP could build a myth of moderation and it helped him win in a super unfavorable landscape?
Police will lose body camera footage from 30 minutes ago if there are allegations of abuse. But when it’s need to rendition minorities like Abrego Garcia to Salvadorian torture camps, they have that 2022 traffic stop dash cam footage backed up in triplicate.
The level of ignorance among liberal pundits about surveillance technology, police violence, and authoritarianism is astonishing. Just no effort to understand important issues before commenting on them.
July 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Police will lose body camera footage from 30 minutes ago if there are allegations of abuse. But when it’s need to rendition minorities like Abrego Garcia to Salvadorian torture camps, they have that 2022 traffic stop dash cam footage backed up in triplicate.
This answer needs to be understood in the context of his prior comment: “We don’t do BDAs.” His answer, truthfully, is the private assessments provided to POTUS and SECDEF at the planning stage. It’s evasive and not responsive to the intent of the questioner, specifically“WTF are you doing here?”
Q: Have you been pressured to change your assessment or give a more rosy intelligence assessment to us by any political factors?
CAINE: That one is easy. No.
CAINE: That one is easy. No.
June 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This answer needs to be understood in the context of his prior comment: “We don’t do BDAs.” His answer, truthfully, is the private assessments provided to POTUS and SECDEF at the planning stage. It’s evasive and not responsive to the intent of the questioner, specifically“WTF are you doing here?”
American reality TV viewers sniffing out inauthenticity:
May 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
American reality TV viewers sniffing out inauthenticity:
They're also lying about what Selia says in order to justify this made-up exception.
WHAT THEY CLAIM SELIA SAYS
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WHAT SELIA ACTUALLY SAYS
WHAT THEY CLAIM SELIA SAYS
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WHAT SELIA ACTUALLY SAYS
May 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
They're also lying about what Selia says in order to justify this made-up exception.
WHAT THEY CLAIM SELIA SAYS
v.
WHAT SELIA ACTUALLY SAYS
WHAT THEY CLAIM SELIA SAYS
v.
WHAT SELIA ACTUALLY SAYS
The problem with the prequels is that they were made in the late 90s. Had they been green lit just a little bit later they would have been much more informed by the War on Terror (the way Lucas was influenced by the Vietnam War when conceiving of the initial trilogy).
The retcon that the Clone troopers carried Order 66 because they had brain-control chips really strikes me as emblematic of why the Prequels fail:
This should be the story of the Jedi and Republic embracing an industrialized mass-murder machine out of expediency, and where that inevitably leads.
This should be the story of the Jedi and Republic embracing an industrialized mass-murder machine out of expediency, and where that inevitably leads.
May 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The problem with the prequels is that they were made in the late 90s. Had they been green lit just a little bit later they would have been much more informed by the War on Terror (the way Lucas was influenced by the Vietnam War when conceiving of the initial trilogy).
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a good example of how bad the media is at handling Trump: he lies in a very clear, provable way and instead of focusing on it Terry Moran tries to move the interview along
This exchange is so very telling.
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
April 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
a good example of how bad the media is at handling Trump: he lies in a very clear, provable way and instead of focusing on it Terry Moran tries to move the interview along
I suspect if you drill down on the "things aren't moving fast enough" complaints you'd find the real issue is that folks disagree with the current approach to the balancing of hardships/irreparable harm re: the Feds. For non-lawyer brained, getting him to safety immediately is the obvious priority.
Everyone's dander is (understandably) up. But it seems worth emphasizing that the federal courts, *including* the Supreme Court, are moving with remarkable speed to deal with the unprecedented flood and gravity of Trump cases.
I get the demand for *faster,* but let's not lose sight of the baseline.
I get the demand for *faster,* but let's not lose sight of the baseline.
April 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I suspect if you drill down on the "things aren't moving fast enough" complaints you'd find the real issue is that folks disagree with the current approach to the balancing of hardships/irreparable harm re: the Feds. For non-lawyer brained, getting him to safety immediately is the obvious priority.
There are like a dozen separate grounds for firing this guy, but after this flop sweat performance I think you need to add that he's now compromised national security by giving the EIC of The Atlantic an unacceptable degree of leverage over him, by obvious lying about their relationship.
Waltz claims he can’t remember if he’s met Goldberg (Goldberg says they’re met a couple times)
March 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
There are like a dozen separate grounds for firing this guy, but after this flop sweat performance I think you need to add that he's now compromised national security by giving the EIC of The Atlantic an unacceptable degree of leverage over him, by obvious lying about their relationship.
UPenn could do the funniest thing in retaliation: leak his transcripts
March 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
UPenn could do the funniest thing in retaliation: leak his transcripts
Evolution of Originalism:
1. Original Intent
2. Original Public Meaning
3. Original Maritime Meaning
1. Original Intent
2. Original Public Meaning
3. Original Maritime Meaning
I am utterly perplexed as to why anyone takes him seriously.
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Evolution of Originalism:
1. Original Intent
2. Original Public Meaning
3. Original Maritime Meaning
1. Original Intent
2. Original Public Meaning
3. Original Maritime Meaning
“You think we sound corrupt but actually we just sound like police officers.”
Tom Homan on what sure sounded like a quid pro quo between him and Eric Adams on Fox & Friends: "This is two cops talking. We're talking cop. Once you're a cop, you never lose that language ... this is a conversation between two cops having a good time, and people are making a lot out of nothing."
February 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“You think we sound corrupt but actually we just sound like police officers.”
Everyone’s asking “Why are these 19 year old boys running our government?” and I’m over here asking, “Why does Elon Musk know so many 19 year old boys?”
Fyi, Ghislaine Maxwell helped Musk connect with the much younger British actress he married a couple of times. If you want to go after Elon dig into his Epstein ties, he’s super sensitive about them. Ditto Trump for that matter but I guess that ship has sailed (thanks Bill Barr).
February 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Everyone’s asking “Why are these 19 year old boys running our government?” and I’m over here asking, “Why does Elon Musk know so many 19 year old boys?”